On-site training for Cubans who work in these hotels has already begun and will continue for the next few months. The Open Education Center, which employs Glazov specialists in Russia, opened in Havana at the end of May. The University team brought all the necessary equipment for the training there: textbooks, fiction, an interactive whiteboard, a virtual reality headset. Creating creative lessons, Russians pay special attention to professional vocabulary from the field of tourism, hotel business and knowledge of the “great and mighty”, which is primarily necessary for hotel employees when working and communicating with Russian tourists. .
Project manager, director of the project office of the Glazov State Pedagogical and Engineering University Arseniy Parfyonov emphasized that it is very important for the entire team of the university that the work has applied value. “It’s good to do projects that are really in demand, and not just close reports,” he said.
And the rector of the Glazov State Engineering and Pedagogical University Yanina Chigovskaya-Nazarova noted that in the near future there could be more students of Russian language courses. “Employees from the university’s project office are negotiating with the management of two more Cuban hotels: Axel Hotel Telégrafo and Grand Aston,” she said.
The demand for knowledge of the Russian language among Cuban hotel employees, according to experts, is mainly associated with the growing flow of tourists from Russia to Cuba. After the resumption of direct flights and the availability of bank cards from the Mir payment system in Cuban territory, hundreds of Russian tourists once again reached out to Liberty Island.
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The Hotel Nacional de Cuba, whose employees have already started learning Russian, is a legendary place, also known as the Hotel Al Capone. It was built in 1930 with the money of the American mafia (more precisely, the “families” of New York), who gathered in one of the largest halls, settled their affairs and made history. Winston Churchill, Frank Sinatra, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, Marlene Dietrich and many other famous people have stayed at this hotel on various occasions. Yuri Gagarin was also here, and in the same year he made his famous flight.
